Fighting the monsters is not a viable option and resources are extremely limited. Injection is a surprisingly difficult game and I’m no amateur to the genre. I wish more devs would take advantage of it. It adds that extra little bit of oomph to encounters. When the monsters are real close to you, it makes all kinds of creepy noises. My personal favorite is the use of the controller speaker. While the concept is cool, honestly, I didn’t think this function was useful at all because not only am I never looking down at my controller, the light only glows when you are directly on top of the item in question. It glows red for enemies, blue for items, and green for nearby health. Toggling the touch pad activates three different color modes for your controller’s light bar. Motion controls are used for certain actions, like lock-picking and rotating items while examining them. There is a lot of Dualshock functionality in the game, every feature is used in some way or another. Playing in the first-person view mode also adds to the difficulty of picking up items to do a weird button prompt detection issue. There are times when I knew there was an item there and I still had trouble keying in on it because the area was too dark and it blended in too well with the environment. I often found it hard to differentiate items from the background. If you manage to have all three at the same time you can craft a medkit that restores you fully. The bandages and spray heal a specific amount while the syringe cures poison. It doesn’t help that the game limits you to carrying one at a time. There aren’t many healing items available maybe one per chapter. ![]() The only real chance you have is not to be seen and be ready to run. You can find meat to distract enemies but the couple of times I tried it, it went completely ignored. It slowly recharges whenever sprint is not in use or you can use an energy drink to reinforce the stamina bar for a bit, but again, resources are scarce. Run out while an enemy is after you and you are as good as dead. Problem with that is sprinting uses stamina. Then it’s time to run until you’re out of sight. There is a little sound icon onscreen to show you how much noise you’re making along with a red eye that pops up when an enemy sees you. Walking slowly or crouching is your best bet. This leaves you with stealth as your main survival tool. My guy actually turned around at one point and I was stuck aiming in the wrong direction as a monster beat my ass, quite literally. ![]() Even then, the shooting can be a pain in the ass because the aiming feels pretty janky. There are a few firearms to obtain, but ammo is scarce and you won’t even see your first gun until halfway through the game. And the worst part about it? For a good chunk of the game, you have no way of fighting them. The gruesome entities that roam the street are out of a Lovecraft-esque nightmare things that cannot be described because the human mind cannot comprehend what it does not understand. ![]() Often they play out in a blur of unsettling imagery of light juxtaposed with dark, constantly shifting like spilled ink on a sheet of paper. There is also a large dose of the surreal especially when it comes to the loading screens and cutscenes. Injection is a dark, creepy game full of macabre imagery. The protagonist is a shut-in who leaves the house to chase after his dog and discovers that the townspeople are missing and unknown horrors lurk in the streets. Now when they say Injection is a love letter to the excellent Silent Hill series, it’s not an exaggeration. It sure is something, though whether that something is good or bad really depends on the type of person playing it. An indie survival horror game and love letter to Silent Hill, Injection is sure to test your patience in many ways. Yeah, that name is a mouthful and I don’t plan on writing that out more than once, so for convenience sake, I’m just going to refer to it here on simply as Injection. “ What the fuck is going on here?” I found myself saying this many times during the course of Injection π 23 ‘No Name, No Number’.
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